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Old Fluke Multimeters
bob91343:
Do you still have those old Fluke meters? I could be interested.
Bob
GregDunn:
The catalog is very interesting indeed! I didn't realize that the 8600A was still for sale after the 8800A was surpassed by the 8840A. Definitely a winner, that one, despite some internet whiners who felt they were not very accurate.
All I've seen so far in those back issues of R-E has been handheld meters, not bench units - but I'll keep looking.
If the question was intended for me - yes, I still have them, and make use of them almost every day. :D But there are plenty more out there, and they're not too hard to fix. I don't think I spent more than $40 on any of the 8600A units, and only one of the 8800As cost me more than $50.
Edit: yay! Found a catalog online and was able to screenshot the price list. Dang! $1099 for the 8800A - that was a month's salary for me back then.
med6753:
Interesting. I was curious about the original prices too. Even $299 USD for a 8000A was big bucks back then. (That's almost $1600 USD in today's dollars)
That list is too early for the 8010A and 8050A which came out quite a few years later, not until the 1980's. They would be probably roughly equivalent to the 8000A and 8600A in price although the 8050A doesn't have auto ranging.
DC1MC:
--- Quote from: Martin.M on January 07, 2019, 06:48:37 pm ---you will catch the next what is comming there :)
My new desire is a russia Multimeter with electro mechanical display
--- End quote ---
Truer words never been spoken ;D, I've snagged this Fluke 8060A from the Kleinanzeigen for 15 euro coins. As usually, "no battery", "not tested" and so on, today the Hermes kid brought it and I was expecting the worse looking on the significant grim outside, so I did a Dave an open it before starting it, cleaned the insides (not too bad) and the outside (miserable), put a Panasonic alkaline, turned on and been blown: It was FRAGGIN DEAD ACCURATE on all ranges :scared: !!!
Well, looking on the back I've seen that was calibrated in 2010, but it was also made in 1981 !!!, how the hell they were able to make them so good :-// ?!?!?
Anyways, now he got his place on my desk and you could enjoy some pictures, my mains frequency it's really 50Hz ;).
Cheers,
DC1MC
GLouie:
Nice find, DC1MC, although the date codes look like 1985 to me.
I would look very carefully at the bases of all the electrolytic capacitors and consider replacing them anyway. I used my 8060A since new for over 30 years before it quit, due to leaking caps. Fortunately, the damage was not too bad and I replaced all the caps as per Modemhead.
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